🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Firehouses have circular stairways originating from the old days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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American surveyor James Thompson produced the first plat of Chicago for the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners.
Read more on Wikipedia
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UNAM’s first fully remote, AI-proctored entrance exam produced suspicious score spikes, prompting cheating concerns. About 58,000 applicants must retake an in-person “control exam,” highlighting how lockdown browsers and AI proctoring can fail to ensure exam integrity.
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Australia’s Hendra virus outbreak showed how deforestation pushed bats toward suburbs, increasing contact with horses and humans. Scientists learned habitat protection can reduce zoonotic spillovers, foreshadowing today’s concerns about bat-borne viruses and pandemic risk.
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🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #22:
CC their manager on a question you could have Slacked.
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⭐ 131, 🖖 3
Offline-first SQL sync with Typescript and Rust cores
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⭐ 3763, 🖖 1134
This is a WebUI interface based on CLI-Proxy-API, designed to simplify configuration modifications and runtime status monitoring.
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⭐ 4795, 🖖 646
Zep | Examples, Integrations, & More
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⭐ 13, 🖖 1
This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD.
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⭐ 41, 🖖 0
A GPUI-native port of Base UI's rich, headless component APIs
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Rust plans 2026–2027 work on `Move`, `Forget`, and `Destruct` traits so types can forbid relocation or forgotten destructors. This could simplify async, pinned/self-referential types, Linux kernel Rust, and safe scoped tasks, but requires major language changes.
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